Assistant Professor of Public Policy
School for Government
georgios.samaras (a) kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 7325
44-46 Aldwych
4.51 Melbourne House
King’s College London
WC2B 4LL
Instagram / LinkedIn
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
School for Government
georgios.samaras (a) kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 7325
44-46 Aldwych
4.51 Melbourne House
King’s College London
WC2B 4LL
Instagram / LinkedIn
Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
- Samaras, G. (2026). Misuse, Mislabelling, and the Broken Path of the ‘Hard-Right’: Challenging Non-scientific Political Discourse. European Political Science, 25(01). DOI: 10.1017/S1682098325100027
- Samaras, G. (2025).
Old Prejudices, New Flags: Greece’s
Far-Right, Palestine, and the Zionist Turn since the Genocide. Accepted in Journal of Palestine Studies. Available upon request.
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Samaras, G. (2025). Mnemonic Normalisation in the Visual Politics of the German Far-Right. Language and Communication, 105. DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.10.001
- Samaras, G. (2025). The Digital Ethnonation: Multimodal Extreme-Right Propaganda and National Identity on YouTube.
Mediterranean Politics, 31(2). DOI: 10.1080/13629395.2025.2545670
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Samaras, G. (2025). From Protest to Paradox: A Decade of SYRIZA’s Ascent, Governance and Decline. Frontiers in Political Science, 7. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1663569
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Samaras, G. (2025). Derailing Truth: Tripartite Discourse and Public Outrage over Greece’s Tempe Valley Disaster. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 33(3). DOI: 10.1111/1468-5973.70062
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Samaras, G. (2025). Battleground Europe: The Rise of Anti-Woke Movements and Their Threat to Democratic Values. Frontiers in Political Science, 7. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1568816
- Samaras, G. (2025). Hide and Seek: Extreme-Right Leadership and Communication Tactics Behind Bars in Greece. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 26(2). DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2025.2487790
- Samaras, G. (2025). Decoding the Symbolic Storm Fuelling Greek Far-Right Politics: a Visual Essay. Visual Studies, 40(2). DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2025.2483230
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Samaras, G. (2025). Weaponising Religion in Greece Post Economic Crisis: An Analysis of Far-Right Political Discourse from 2019 to 2024. Journal of Empirical Theology, 38(1). DOI: 10.1163/15709256-20240018
Working Papers
- Samaras, G. After Austerity: Youth, Gender, and the Battle for Equality in Greece. Foundation for European Progressive Studies Working Paper.
- Samaras, G, Rigkos-Zitthen, I & Alves, D. Materialised Sovereignty: How the Far-Right Rewrites Climate Politics. Working Paper.
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Samaras, G. Violence as Virtue? Masculine
Norms and Support for Golden Dawn. Under Review in Terrorism and Political Violence. Available upon request.
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Samaras, G & Tsagkroni, B. Governing Through
Signifiers: Far-Right Discourse in the European Parliament. Under Consideration in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. Available upon request.
- Samaras, G. A Diagnostic Toolkit for Police Organisational Failure: Four Case Studies from Greece. Under Review in Public Money & Management. Available upon request.
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Samaras, G. Modular Messaging and Multimodal Influence amidst Democratic Fragility in Greece: Unpacking New Democracy’s Party Funded Media Network. Under Review in Information, Communication & Society. Available upon request.
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Samaras, G. Under New Stewardship: Affective–Algorithmic Dynamics of Conspiracy Memes on X during the 2024 US Election. Under Review in Visual Studies. Available upon request.
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Samaras, G. Gendered Authoritarianism. Under Review in Sexuality, Gender and Policy. Available upon request.
Books
- Samaras, G. (Forth). Who Rules
the Land of Denial? Book Project
under contract with Palgrave Macmillan and Springer Nature. New Perspectives on South-East Europe Series. Forthcoming.
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Samaras, G. (2022). Opening the floodgates of hate: An investigation into Golden Dawn’s online extremism [Doctoral dissertation, King’s College London]. King’s College London. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12732.76161
Book Chapters
- Samaras, G. (2027). Charting Extremism: New Methodological Frontiers in Interviewing Hard-to-Reach Voters. In: L. Hubbard & L. Sugiura (eds.), Methods in Hate Research, Volume 1: Methodological Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Samaras, G. (2026). Tempe Crash and the Triple Discourse. In: A. Galanopoulos & M. Louka (eds.), Collective Trauma after the Tempe Rail Disaster. Topos Books.
Other Publications
- Biagio, R & Samaras, G. (2025). Inequality and Fiscal Policy in a Spatially Uneven Green Industrial Transition: a New-Keynesian Model with UK Data. ETERON Research Proposal.
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Samaras, G. (2025). Demokratia dismantled. Index on Censorship, 54 (1). DOI: 10.1177/03064220251332621
- Samaras, G. (2024). The
Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right. LSE Review of Books.
- Samaras, G. (2023). Populism
in Power: Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump. LSE Review of Books.
- Samaras, G. (2023). The culture
of democracy–a sociological approach to civil society: edited by Bin Xu, Cambridge, Polity, 2022. Democratization. ISBN
1509543988. DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2022.2142209
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Samaras, G. (2023). The Capitol
Riots. Digital Media, Disinformation, and Democracy Under Attack. International Journal of
Press-Politics. DOI:
10.1177/19401612231172315
- Samaras, G. (2022). Rise
of the Extreme Right: A Lowy Institute Paper: edited by Lydia Khalil, Melbourne, Penguin, 2022, ISBN 1761046357. Politics, Religion & Ideology. DOI: 10.1080/21567689.2022.214628
- Samaras, G. (2021). Outlawing Golden Dawn: Dealing with Right-Wing Extremism in Greece. European Institute of the Mediterranean Yearbook 2021.
Policy Reports & Commentary
- Submerged in Darkness: Distortion of Reality and the Absolute Deprivation of Alternatives. ETERON Institute.
- Aspiring European Imitators of Trumpism. ETERON Institute.
- Greek views on gendered violence and equality: unveiling attitudes and concerns. London School of Economics.
- The "curse" of "overtourism" and extreme inequalities. ETERON Institute.
- Moral Panic and Greek Politics. ETERON Institute.
- International & European Developments Bulletin #20 | Europe at the Polls – Where is the EU Heading? ENA Institute.
- Sliding Away from Unity. University of Oxford – Department of Politics and International Relations.
- Normalisation and Co-existence: extremist tendencies in centre-right factions. ETERON Institute Papers.
- Party Movement and Authoritarian Tendencies in Greece. ETERON Institute.
- Pamphlet No 8: First Thoughts on the 25th June 2023 Election in Greece. PSA Greek Politics.
- Pamphlet No 7: First Thoughts on the 21st May 2023 Election in Greece. PSA Greek Politics.
- The normalisation of the far-right in Greek politics. ECPR – Illiberalism Paper Series.
- The Far-right in Greece and the Parliament. ENA Institute for Alternative Policies Papers.
- The Greek Far-Right after Golden Dawn: what’s next? C-REX – University of Oslo.